Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-08-27
The Republican Convention at Har-
risburg.

The Republican Convention at Har-
risburg.
The Pennsylvania republicans held
their usual annual powwow at
Harrisburg ON the 18th inst, adopted
the usual platform, and nominated
their ticket. Adjutant General ID.
b. Hastings was called to the chair.
and made a fool of himself if nature
had not anticipated him in that
operation, by making a speech cal
culated to the utmost, if it could have
had any influence upon sensible
people, to rekindle the slumbering
embers of sectional discord, and
startled his hearers by the astound-
ing news that Mr.. Cleveland was
not elected but was counted in a by
Hayes. He said: "In 1884, by a
shameless fraud, thirty-eight cleo
toral votes from southern States
were counted for a man who was
never entitled to them, and the
product of that fraud was the .estora-
tion to power of the democratic
party for the first time since it
sought by armed rebellion to strike
from the heavens the tlag of the
whole nation, and / predict that
next year the people of Pennsylvania
will right the wrong /" Ii this is the
best that the republican party can
do for chairman of their convention
they must have been hard pressed
for suitable timber out of which to
make one. 1t was very grave and
unfortunate mistake in Adjutant
General Haskins to indulge in such
"stop theft fictions however vivid
his Imagination, as to charge that
Cleveland was fraudulently counted
in, as it was calculated 10 awaken in
the minds of honest American cit
iZens, "reminiscences unfavorable TO
the republican party connected with
the now almost undisputed fact that
this necromantic piece of political
ledgerdemain was actually performed
by that party, Ammo Domini, 1876.
And when he talked with such
grandiloquent fervor of the dem
ocratic party having tried to wipe
out the flag of the Whole nation, he
forgot that he had written, in his
cut and dried speech little further
along, a grand enlogy on General
Hancock who was once democratic
candidate for the presidency, and he
altogether ignored such men as
Buell., Slocum, McClelland and Nc
Cook on the democratic, and Long
street, Malone, Riddleberger, Mosby,
Nancy and Frank Reid on the re-
publican, side of the question. He
pitched into president Cleveland
without gloves and his clarion voice
woke the echoes among the iron hills
of "the state of hrotherly love"
when he made the following damag-
ing charge against president Cleve-
land: "On last memorial day,
Whea The blue and the gncu, .torgetfaI
Of the psS, united to drip leIugs Of
healing balm on the future, where
was the president Of the United
States? He had gone fishing, and
nobody was interested enough in
him to care whether he caught any
fish or not" Now that the president
of the United States should be SO
hcartless and oblivious of all loyal
and patriotic considerations as actu-
ally to go a fishing on memorial
day was utterly inexcusable, and
the last contemptuous declaration
that nobody cared whether Cleve-
land caught any fish or not, is actu-
ally whitening, and almost as dra-
matte as the grand climacteric Of
Patrick Henry's celebrated speech
on John Hook, the Scotchman.
But when he consoled his discons :
late republican hearers with the
oracular prediction that next year
the people of Pennsylvania will
right the wrong, the effect must have
been tremendous. 1t is said that the
Dutch once took Holland, and it
would be momentous event in the
history of the republican party il
they could succeed in capturing
Pennsylvania. General Hopkins did
not forget also to give them a touch
on the confederate flag ! u iness, NJ
doubt emulous of the nttoriety and
popularity which Brigadier General
Tuttle had achieved in that line.
General Hawkins did not fail in
passing to notice the conspicuous
claims of that guano statesman and
distinguished railroad stock manipu-
lator of whom the State Pennsylvania
proudly claims the paternity Tor
rather maternity, and he 0p ned up
on that interesting subject on this
wise: "Grover Cleveland was il
power ny reason of the fraudulent
suppression of l,000, 900 voses waicil,
If honestly cast and ecuIted would
have placed in the seats Of ppwer
two grand expeneRis Of rt'pub i
cans-the matchless Anerivan,
James G. Blaine, and the repr, sen
tative volunteer soldier, the Ia uented;
John A. Logan" Nov, II Cjy
James had been there il Is certain
that he would have hldshed Isar
above the top of his scalp, and as for
Logan, poor fellow, he was dead ans;
gone-it was really too hard N.
Logan. If this man IS reDryseat,-
tive republican, and tn ) nan's
sp .ech is a specimen Jf tie - ccies
to be made in tae tohin, pr
idential campaign by r.DL .i,aa
stump orators, it is tim tas ppg
rebel democrats were bs-.i lnin.; 10
frafnhla in THAR baafz Cor fh.at- - ~